GENDER, GAZE, OTHERNESS AND

PHOTOGRAPHY

Josee, Anneka, and Ofelia

 WHAT DO THESE WORDS MEAN TO YOU

• Gender, Gaze, and Otherness

Gender: Traditionally seen as something biological but more recently this has
been challenged by the idea that it has become a reflection of one's cultural and
social identity

Gaze: This makes me think of both Laura Mulvey & Judith Butler. Mulvey focused
on the ‘male gaze’, which focuses on how men look and ‘fascinate’ over women
within the media who may be represented sexually. Butler focuses on the
feminine gaze which is pretty much the contrast of the male gaze, instead leading
men to be gazed upon in a sexual fashion

Otherness: Relating to Stewart Halls reading, this could be interpreted as

anything out a the social norm or something that doesn’t follow a social guideline,
subverting stereotypes in the process.
 SUMMARY OF WEEK 4 READINGS

• The Spectacle of the Other:

• Robers/Azoulay:

• Photograph’s ‘actants’ :
DIANE ARBUS

American photographer
Documentary style
14 March 1923 –
26 July 1971
 DIANA ARBUS CONT’D

• Girl In A Swimming Cap -1970-71

• Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey, 1967

 LEE MILLER

American photographer
Surrealism
23 April 1907 –
21 July 1977
 LEE MILLER CONT’D

• Model wearing Digby Morton suit, shot

through arch revealing bomb damage"
(1941).

• Lee Miller in Adolf Hitler's bathtub,

Munich, 1945.
NAN GOLDING

American photographer
Lucid and vivid portrayals
12 September 1953 –
 NAN GOLDING CONT’D

• Misty and Jimmy Paulette in a Taxi, NYC

1991

• Nan one month after being battered

1984
SARAH MAPLE

British visual artist

Controversial
1985 –
 SARAH MAPPLE CONT’D

• Fighting Fire with Fire NO.2(2007)

• YOU(2007)
DOROTHEA LANGE

American photographer
Social realism
26 May 1895 –
11 October 1965
 DOROTHEA LANGE CONT’D

• Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California

• Damaged Child, Shacktown, Elm Grove,

Oklahoma1936
 YOUR TURN

• Photographer?
• What definition would you give this?
• Gender? Gaze? Otherness?